5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 7 Vocabulary

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5th Grade Social StudiesChapter 7 Vocabulary

• Mrs. Thornburgs version

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What do we call a region that shares the same
time?

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Time Zone

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What do we call crossing a continent?

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Transcontinental

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What do we call a long period with little or no
rain?

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Drought

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What do we call twisted wire with a sharp barb,
or point, every few inches?

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Barbed wire

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What do we call land that the government set
aside for American Indians?

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Reservation

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What do we call an African American settler who
called him or herself after Exodus, a book of the
Bible?

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Exodusters

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What do we call a town where railroad tracks
begin or end?

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Railhead

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What do we call a settlers home and land?

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Homestead

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What do we call an unfair, negative opinion that
can lead to unjust treatment?

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Prejudice

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What was the name given to Great Plains farmers
because they had to break through so much thick
soil, called sod, in order to farm?

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Sodbuster

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What do we call changing a groups culture and
traditions so that it blends with a larger group?

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Assimilate

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What do we call the amount of something that
people want to sell at certain prices?

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Supply

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What do we call the amount of something that
people want to buy at certain prices?

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Demand

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What do we call the area where an animal or a
plant normally lives or grows?

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Habitat

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What do we call it when a certain type of plant
or animal no longer exists?

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Extinct